Dick the Stick first appeared in Diego Marcon’s animated film Interlude (introducing Dick the Stick). The short cartoon, loosely based on a recollection used by Georges Perec as a preface to Especès d’espaces, takes place over three acts, featuring a stick orderly – Dick – intent on polishing a boot. A script for Dick is a collection of 38 short, self-contained episodes, each with Dick the Stick as the main character.